by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, December 7.
- Iran’s bloody repression of protests was an answer to the Trump administration
- Merkel Tours Auschwitz With ‘Sense Of Shame’ And Warns Of Resurgent Anti-Semitism
- Splintered Isle: A Journey Through Brexit Britain (“As Britain heads for an election, a Times reporter spent two weeks driving from London to Glasgow. He found a country united only by its disunity.”)
- Boris’s Blundering Brilliance (“Brexit has given the U.K’s self-seeking Prime Minister the opportunity to show he actually knows what he’s doing.”)
- Mexico’s Polarizing President Presides Over Rising Violence, Flailing Economy
- American student Xiyue Wang freed in prisoner swap after three years in Iran jail (“Wang was released Saturday in exchange for Iranian Massoud Soleimani, who was being held by the U.S. for violating sanctions.”)
- The Pensacola naval base shooting suspect was identified as member of the Saudi military. Why was he there? (“Mohammed Alshamrani was one of about 200 foreign nationals training on the base.”)
- White House Rules Out Participating In House Impeachment Inquiry Process
- Pensacola shooting: Saudi student kills three at Florida naval air station, says official
- Justice Ginsburg temporarily halts Trump financial records subpoena
- Giuliani returns to Ukraine, signals apparent disregard for inquiry (“Current and former officials in Washington expressed astonishment at how President Trump’s private attorney — apparently on his behalf — seemed to be mocking investigators, if not the very idea that either he or his client should answer any articles of impeachment.”)
- More than 500 law professors say Trump committed ‘impeachable conduct’ (Of course he did.)
- Here are the Senate Republicans who could vote to convict Trump (“After Collins, Romney and Murkowski, there is a larger group of GOP senators who have publicly or privately expressed concern over Trump’s withholding of military aid to Ukraine and his attempt to persuade Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to conduct a corruption investigation.”)
- Rudy Giuliani just blew up Trump’s “no quid pro quo” talking point (“Posting from somewhere in Ukraine, Trump’s lawyer tweets the quid pro quo.” Beyond parody.)
- Trump still uses his personal cell phone despite warnings and increased call scrutiny (Let’s see the media obsess about this as much as they did about “her emails!”)
- Schiff: Pence aide provided new impeachment evidence — but VP’s office classified it
- Democrats debate a dangerous false choice (“The choice is not between a broad impeachment approach and a narrow, laser-focused one.”)
- Impeaching Donald Trump Is Already a Win for Democrats
- Supreme Court won’t let Justice Dept. immediately resume federal executions after hiatus
- Trump Orders Toilet Rule Review, Saying People Flush 10 Times (Trump, as always, is an imbecile.)
- President Trump Is Wrong — Toilets Are Good Now. Here’s Why.
- Does the attorney general really believe this? (“Barr is right that politics today makes too little room for compromise. But the idea that the right is the aggrieved party and only the left is guilty in this decline is almost laughable.”)
- Nikki Haley Suggests Confederate Flag Meant ‘Sacrifice and Heritage’ Until Dylann Roof ‘Hijacked’ It (Yep, that’s Nikki Haley.)
- Is There Any Republican Left Who Isn’t Just Foul Ambition, All the Way Through? (“Nikki Haley declares the Confederate flag was alright until Dylann Roof ruined it.”)
- America the Hot Mess (“Yet, if you look again, you find a durable past that may just save us yet.”)
- Congress, White House near deal to create Space Force in exchange for paid leave for federal workers
- Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over
- Buttigieg releases timeline of McKinsey work
- Pete Buttigieg has his turn in the 2020 barrel
- Senior State Dept. aide once called Obama a Kenyan and Pelosi a Nazi whose Botox wore off (Lovely.)
- There’s One Less Con Man in Congress, as Rep. Duncan Hunter Resigns
- Musk’s defamation win may reset legal landscape for social media
- Senator Mark Warner addresses maintenance backlog at national parks across the country
- Kaine says he’s not ready to endorse in the Democratic primary (“When my gut says, I think this person would be a good president, I think they can win and I think they can win Virginia — I have sort of three tests — then I will endorse them” Yep, that’s about where I’m at too.)
- With Six Days to Go, Four Democratic 2020 Presidential Candidates Have Filed for the March 3 Primary Here in Virginia
- Every Single Virginia Republican Member of Congress Votes AGAINST Voting Rights; Every Virginia Democrat Votes FOR Voting Rights
- Spanberger, Wittman propose bipartisan legislation expanding use of 529 funds
- Virginia Gov. Northam suspends policy that allowed 8-year-old girl to be strip searched, says he was “deeply disturbed”
- Schapiro: The art of politics and its inartful practitioners (As usual, can’t read any of this unless you subscribe, because it’s behind a draconian paywall.)
- Virginia lawmakers have a conservation mandate in 2020 (What LCV Executive Director Michael Town lays out here is fine, but basically the bare minimum. Legislators should be MUCH more aggressive and far-reaching than this.)
- Audio: AG Mark Herring Says Gun “Sanctuary” Resolutions “Have Absolutely No Legal Effect Whatsoever”
- Speaker-Designee Eileen Filler-Corn Finalizes Committee Chair List
- As Virginia Tech students strike for climate action, investors mum on fossil-fuel ties
- Students in Fairfax go on strike for climate action
- Activists, students march in Charlottesville UVA Climate Strike
- Plant Trees to Clean the Chesapeake Bay
- Legislating for Electric School Buses: Some Thoughts and Principles …
- Is Del. Kaye Kory’s Electric School Bus Proposal A Good Deal for Consumers – Or For Dominion Energy?
- Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions a barometer for the shifting politics in Richmond’s suburbs
- Hopewell leaders decry recent uptick in violence as police arrest ‘person of interest’ in Richmond firefighter’s killing
- Where’s Soering? (“Just before Thanksgiving, Governor Ralph Northam announced German citizen Jens Soering had won parole. A former honors student at UVA, he was imprisoned as a teenager for the brutal murder of his girlfriend’s parents. Soering spent more than 30 years in prison. Now, supporters in Germany are awaiting his return, but he’s still stuck behind bars in Virginia.”)
- Williams: You can’t vet the Navy Hill project without talking about public housing.
- If you’re dressed in layers, this weekend’s rather decent
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